The saga of Ted Haggard — disgraced New Life megachurch founder turned insurance salesman turned founder of St. James Church in Colorado Springs — took yet another turn with a profile in GQ magazine's February issue.

In the article, largely reported during a camping trip with two of his sons and GQ writer Kevin Roose, Haggard confides he never had "sex sex" with Mike Jones, then a male prostitute, during a three- year liaison that erupted in scandal in November 2006 in Colorado Springs.

Haggard offers a few details in GQ about the nature of their trysts, his purchase five or six times of crystal meth and use of straight and gay pornography.

Haggard was described in his wife's 2010 book, "Why I Stayed," as struggling for years with same-sex attraction. He told Roose: "Here's where I really am on this issue. I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual."

However, Haggard also said, at age 54, with a wife, children and a new church, he can enforce the boundaries he has set for himself — being heterosexual and monogamous. The Bible, he said, makes it clear that is God's best plan for people.

"It's all 4-year-old news," Haggard told The Denver Post on Wednesday when asked if there was anything he wanted to clarify or correct about the GQ piece.

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When questioned about items that seemed to be new twists in the tale, Haggard said Roose desperately tried to find some new twists but didn't.

"We're not doing any interviews on it," Haggard said. "We're just church people."

Roose said in his story that "Ted's true sore spot" is the treatment he received from the church in the scandal's aftermath.

After Haggard resigned from New Life, as part of a roughly $200,000 severance package, he had to agree to cut off contact with church members, leave the state, not work as a minister and to submit to a panel of overseers for "restoration." He quit the process early, returning to Colorado Springs in 2008.

"I used to think the church was the light of the world," Haggard told GQ. "But I've completely lost my faith in it. . . . You've got to understand, Kevin, people are, at their cores, hateful."

Roose said Haggard's "peculiar brand of self-victimization and protestation — in which every 'I messed up' is followed by a 'but . . .,' makes it hard for people in Colorado Springs to believe that he's actually sorry for what he did." It's hard, Roose said, for some to believe anything Haggard says.

Haggard's new church of 200 to 300 members, who meet Sundays at Timberview Middle School, is dedicated to helping people in the depths of their own crises, the pastor has said.

Haggard told Roose that his own life was returning to normal. But his teenage son spoke up during the interview: "I don't think our family has a normal anymore."

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